Improvement in strap attachments for blankets



H. B. RICHMOND. Strap Attachments for Blankets.

No. 216,218. Pa-t ented'June3,187 9.

N. PETERS. PHOYO-IJTHOGRAPHER. WASHINGTDN. D c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY B. RICHMOND, OF DEEP RIVER, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENT, TO GEO. W. BOWKER, OF WETHERSFIELD, CONNECTICUT.

IMPROVEMENT IN STRAP ATTACHMENTS FOR BLANKETS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 216,218, dated June 3, 1879; application filed April 14, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY B. RICHMOND, of Deep River, in the county of Middlesex, and in the State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Strap Attachments for Blankets; and do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, making a part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of my improved fastening detached from a blanket and with its parts separated from each other. Fig. 2 is a like view of the same connected with a blanket and strap, and Figs. 3 and 4 are sections upon lines a w and z 2, respectively, of Fig. 2. i

Letters of like name and kind refer to like parts in each of the figures.

The design of my invention is to enable straps to be attached to and detached from a blanket With ease and without mutilation of either, and to this end it consists in the peculiar construction of the device and its attachment to the blanket and strap, substantially as and for the purpose hereinafter specified.

In the annexed drawings, A and B represent two fiat metal plates, made circular and of corresponding dimensions, and provided atsuitable points upon their inner faces, near their edges, with spurs a and b, respectively, which are preferably formed by cutting a A- shaped opening within said plates and bending the partially-detached piece to a right angle with the face of the same.

Upon the outer side of the plate B is formed a housing, C, which has such interior dimensions as to enable it to receive and contain the end of a strap, D, of ordinary size. The disks A and B are connected together and the strap D secured in place by means of a screw, E, which passes through the centers of the former, its head 0 being contained within a countersunk hole, a, in said disk A, while the outer threaded end, 6, of said screw passes through and is contained within the threaded opening 0, which is provided within said housing 0, and said strap. 1

To connect the device with ablanket, F, the disks A and B are separated and placed upon the inner and outer sides, respectively, of the same, after which the screw E is inserted, and said disks drawn together until theyrfirmly clasp said blanket and their spurs a and b are embedded within the same.

Having thus fully set forth the nature and merits of my invention, what I claim as new The hereinbeforedescribed fastening, consistin g of the disk A, provided upon its inner face with spurs a and a and opening a, the disk B, having the spurs b and b,housing 0, opening 0, and the screw E, passing through and confining said parts together, substan' tially as and for the purpose specified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this 15th day of May, 1876.

HENRY B. RICHMOND.

' Witnesses:

J OSEPH B. BANNING, JASON J. BRooKs. 

